I want to …

• Have people sign up to my mailing list
• Have people submit a form
• Have people sign up to a manifesto (like a form but also add to a mailing list and maybe "confirm" their signature)
• Pull in and display a list of things e.g. a list of signatories or a directory of endorsing organizations

Endorse Process with a Form

Form design

• we can have opt-in to show name
• we can capture org etc

Analysis

The only option with 0 cost for up to 1k a month is send in blue … or google form …

Criteria

• >100 signups a month
  • Up to 1k+ a month (let's be optimistic 😉) for free if possible
• Extract list to spreadsheet quickly and/or API so that we can display e.g. "total endorsers"
• Cost
• Nice to have: email confirmation to provide verification and avoid spamming

Options

Options

• Form + spreadsheet + some integration code to display totals and endorsers
• Mailing list
• Petition system

Pure Forms

• google form: (ugly)¹
• formspree: 50 submissions / month for free, $10/month (billed annually or$12 billed monthly) = 1K, $40/month = 5K
  • On free plan you can't export the submissions to a spreadsheet. On gold plan you can.
• typeform: ❌ 100 responses a month limit for free, €30/month = 1000 - https://help.typeform.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040197372-Response-limits

Hack on email subscription list (e.g. sendinblue)

• sendinblue: unlimited contacts. 300 emails a day on free plan … plus customizable sign up forms

Petition systems e.g. on Wordpress

• https://civist.com - looks ok
  • allows for submission confirmation (via email)
  • allows for tracking counts of signatories
• http://wppetitions.com - so-so
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/speakout/ - looks a bit old (?)
• https://wings.dev - looks good but is propriety afaict

Footnotes

1. https://blog.webjeda.com/google-form-customize/ ↩